J-Bay

Stayed up to long enough to watch Occy v Curren. The webcast is great, but the 9 hour time difference makes you work for it. Mostly I'm pulling for Dane. He is an unbelievable surfer, and I was rewarded for staying up to watch his heats. He was the only surfer to make any attempt at airs yesterday. Not an easy thing to do at J-bay. Like watching football or any other sport, watching live is completely different from reading the results or even catching the highlight video. Even though none of my surf buddies follow the WCT closely, somebody must, because after 3 hours or so the web dropped out during the last 5 minutes of Dane's heat against Damian Hobgood. Must of been too much demand because it started working a few minutes after Dane's loss. Best result of his career so far and more importantly, he is clearly the most exciting surfer on the tour right now. Hopefully, the rest of this year's events will be as exciting as J-Bay.